Snack Day

Lance enjoying his favorite snack (cheese sandwich, yogurt drink and water)

Once a month I bring snacks for Lance's Kindergarten class. It's what they refer to as their Special Day wherein the kid gets to be the teacher's assistant, leader of the whole class for that day, he also gets to bring something (a toy, picture, etc.) for Show and Tell and the parent as the Snack Mom/Dad.

Weeks before I was scheduled to bring snacks in school, I was really clueless and getting anxious on what to bring. They stressed the importance of bringing healthy snacks only, honestly I wasn't that familiar with what kids here are eating for snacks. I must admit, not everything I'm feeding my children are healthy and coming from a country whose snacks are basically sweet and heavy, I kind of doubted myself and got stressed a little. I even searched the internet for examples of healthy snacks such as: veggies and dip, crackers and cheese, fruit and yogurt.

My first time to bring snacks, I brought grilled cheese sandwich and apple juice. A month later, I brought cheese sticks, raisin cinnamon bread and fruit juice. On my third time, which was Leila's birthday, I brought vanilla cupcakes, beef hotdogs on stick with marshmallows and some cubed cheese. Not exactly as healthy but they do bring cupcakes when it's somebody's birthday.

It's a good thing though, made me aware of what is healthy and what's not because sometimes as a mother you get frustrated when they your kids don't eat what's in front of them or they gear towards sweets or the wrong group of food and you tend to ignore that because you just want your kids to eat whatever that food is.

Every afternoon I would ask Lance what he ate in school, he would tell me what food it was, if it's good or not. Yes, those kids can be tough, little food critics in the making. Verdict would either be delicious or not, as simple as that.